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Disclosing potential ASD diagnosis at work

faithfulfluff
over 4 years ago

Hello all. I’m new here and hoped someone may be able to help me, or whether anyone has experience with this. I have searched the forum but couldn’t find anything quite like the issue I have. 

I have been in continuous employment at one company for the last 7 years. I am a female in my 30s. 

I am currently going through the autism diagnostic process with the NHS. I have completed Stage 1 and have been invited back for Stage 2, though I don’t have a date for this yet. 

I do intend to tell work if a diagnosis is confirmed, however something has come up and I may need to disclose this earlier than anticipated. 

Has anyone been in a situation like this before? Is it worth telling them even though I don’t know if it will be confirmed?

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  • over 4 years ago

    Hi everyone. 

    I just thought I would update this to say that I have now been made redundant. 

    The reasons included not being ‘warm’ to customers on the phone (or in person to other staff members), not answering the phone enough, needing to work on my reactions to situations and not being proactive in a particular way. 

    None of these issues had been brought up with me previously and my other two colleagues have been employed within the last two years or thereabouts. 

    They are apparently much better at these things already.

    Not sure what to do from here. 

  • over 4 years ago in reply to faithfulfluff

    Hi I have Asperger's and I do give time to my local NHS Health And Social Care Trust by sitting on Interview Panels when recruiting Admin workers or Consultants , I have sat on many panels since 2014 and have had some training for this too. So to be there working 7 years for the employer to suddenly let you go on them grounds seems odd to me , though I am not an expert.

    It might be useful maybe if you could give the NAS Helpline a call and discuss all this with an a NAS adviser !  

    Depending where you are in the Country they may know of some employment support agency who specifically help Autistic people get paid work and offer in work support too. 

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  • over 4 years ago in reply to faithfulfluff

    Hi I have Asperger's and I do give time to my local NHS Health And Social Care Trust by sitting on Interview Panels when recruiting Admin workers or Consultants , I have sat on many panels since 2014 and have had some training for this too. So to be there working 7 years for the employer to suddenly let you go on them grounds seems odd to me , though I am not an expert.

    It might be useful maybe if you could give the NAS Helpline a call and discuss all this with an a NAS adviser !  

    Depending where you are in the Country they may know of some employment support agency who specifically help Autistic people get paid work and offer in work support too. 

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